All This Impeachment Talk Is Pure Trump Derangement SyndromeThat man in the White House is vulgar, disrespectul, maybe even dangerous.So what?Nick Gillespie|May. 17, 2017 5:00 pmReasonReasonWell this didn't take long, did it?

Donald Trump, the most-unlikely and least-liked president in the history ofthe United States, had barely celebrated his first 100 days when calls forhis impeachment started flying faster than Andrew Weiner dick pics at a GirlScout cookout. For the good of democracy, don't you see, the Republicansmust not only be kicked to the curb in the 2018 midterms, but the presidenthimself must be thrown into the street, just like he once tried to evictthat old lady from her house in Atlantic City!

In the wake of the firing of FBI Director James Comey, whose recenttestimony on Hillary Clinton's emails was so flawed and incompetent that hisunderlings immediately issued a clarification to the Senate JudiciaryCommittee, virtually every non-Republican #NeverTrumper (plus Sen. JohnMcCain, who has some good reasons to hate Trump) has called for The Donald'shead on a platter. And this was all before the tantalizing possibility of a"Comey memo" detailing various attempts by Trump to shut down aninvestigation of possible ties between former National Security Adviser MikeFlynn and Russian operatives.

But let's get real: At this point in the game, all the explainers about howimpeachment works (the 1990s called, they want their sex scandals back!) andadapting the 25th Amendment's ability to remove the president fromdecision-making during colonoscopies to the current crisis are evidence-freeexercises in ideological masturbation. If we are going to survive not justthe Trump years but eventually get around to kick-starting the 21st century,we're going to have become smarter media consumers and demand more from bothour politicians and the press. "The New York Times has not viewed a copy ofthe memo," explains the Paper of Record, "but one of Mr. Comey's associatesread parts of it to a Times reporter." As Reason's Scott Shackford hasnoted, that's what Joe Biden would call a "big fucking deal" if it turns outto exist and to be accurate. It's also a pretty big if at this point.

But even before Comey's possible "paper trail" documenting President Trump'sdemands (which may or may not actually rise to the level of impeachableoffense) came to light, his enemies were out in force. For god's sake, theywanted him impeached even before he was the Republican nominee.

"An attempt to obstruct justice is an impeachable offense," huffed AndrewSullivan in New York magazine last week. "And Trump has just openly admittedto such a thing" because "sources close to Comey" said the president-electasked the FBI director for his "personal loyalty." What unemotionalanalysis. Remember that a year ago, Sullivan called the possibility of aTrump presidency an "extinction-level threat" to mom, apple pie, andChevrolet. Elsewhere in New York, Jonathan Chait, who is as doggedly aDemocratic partisan that exists in print, put out an article under theheadline, "The Law Can't Stop Trump. Only Impeachment Can." Trump's highcrime for Chait was the completely opaque charge that Trump sharedclassified intel with Russian officials visiting the White House, a chargeflatly rebutted by National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, who said theshared info was "wholly appropriate" and that "the president in no waycompromised any sources or methods." For Chait though, and so many moreeither openly in "the Resistance" or just fellow-traveling, the real problemis that America never anticipated peckerwoods being in the Oval Office. "Thesystem is set up with the unstated presumption that the president is aresponsible person who will act in a broadly legitimate, competent fashion,"writes Chait. "The system is designed so that the only remedy for apresident who cannot faithfully act in the public interest is impeachment."

Forget all that Madisonian mumbo-jumbo about "if men were angels, nogovernment would be necessary." A real-estate developer from Queens withhistory's worst comb-over is about the bring the Statue of Liberty to herknees like an ISIS captive. Indeed, whether or not James Comey's memosdetailing his version of Trump's perfidies against a free-and-independentFBI—you know, that august institution which has one of the very worstrecords among any law-enforcement agency of abusing power —The Atlantic'sJames Fallows has already said that the mere firing of Comey is "worse thanWatergate." Think about that for a second. No one disputes the FBI directorserves at the pleasure of the president and he can fire him whenever hewants. What "Watergate" revealed was not simply Richard Nixon's willingnessto lie and cover up criminal activity committed on his behalf, but an entireapparatus to spy on, pervert, and undermine elected government.

Assuming the worst about Trump at this point, his behavior doesn't comeclose to rising to that level or the actions undertaken by, say, RonaldReagan during Iran-Contra. If anything, Trump is such an idiot that he issealing his own fate by forcing congressional Republicans, most of whomdon't particularly care for him anyway, to call for bigger and betterinvestigations about Russian influence in the 2016 election. Short-termerssuch as Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz are already subpoenaing whatever memoriesJames Comey jotted down during his generally mediocre-to-awful tenure ashead of the FBI. Comey is the guy, we should recall, who tried to strong-armApple into undermining its phone encryption even though it was able to crackthe San Bernadino's phone just fine, who gave Hillary Clinton aides immunityand allowed them to destroy their laptops, and recently attacked the FirstAmendment because it gave Wikileaks space to publish authentic-if-purloineddocuments. The best thing you can say about Comey is that he's no LouisFreeh or J. Edgar Hoover, which is the textbook case of damning with faintapprobation.

Needless to say, none of this absolves Donald Trump of any wrongdoing. Butimpeachment talk this soon and this thick is coming not from a place ofseriousness but pure partisanship and ideology masquerading as disinterestedbelief in the public good. When the Republicans moved to impeach BillClinton back in the 1990s, it was the same thing and it didn't exactly workout that well for many of the main conspirators, or for the country atlarge. Among other things, the impeachment push indirectly led to the ousterof Newt Gingrich as Speaker of the House, which eventuated in an actualchild molester being way high up in the presidential line of succession.

The impeachment of Bill Clinton was one of the major mileposts in the long,ongoing shift of America from a high-trust to a low-trust country, one inwhich faith, trust, and confidence in most of our major public, private, andcivic institutions have taken a massive beating for decades now. Maybe itwas the Warren Commission Report that got the ball rolling, or LyndonJohnson's infamous "credibility gap." All the secret wars in Cambodia andWatergate sure didn't help and the mind-boggling revelations of the ChurchCommission might have the final nail in the coffin of trust. The Pintodisaster sure didn't help, nor did other revelations of private-sectorfakery. You throw in freakazoid oddness such as the People's Temple, UnitedWay scandals, and rampant Catholic Church buggery, and, well, what do youexpect? Across the board, fewer and fewer of us trust the government, themedia, labor, corporations, etc. to do the right thing given the option ofdoing the wrong thing.

And get this: However unpopular Donald Trump is, Congress is even lesstrustworthy. Libertarians especially ignore this slide in trust and the rushto partisan-driven calls to undermine elected officials absent actualevidence at our peril. Low-trust countries don't actually shrink the size,scope, and spending of government. Perversely, citizens call for "governmentregulation, fully recognizing that such regulation leads to corruption." Ithelps to understand that Donald Trump, for all of his obvious bullshitting,flip-flops, and lies, isn't the cause of anything but the effect. The 21stcentury in the United States began with an election that was effectivelysettled by a coin toss, which does little to create faith in institutions(especially as Republicans in Bush v. Gore appealed to the federalgovernment, while Democrats called for state's rights). Then came the 9/11attacks, an intelligence failure compounded by a massively mendaciousdisinformation campaign that resulted in a Middle East quagmire, ballooningdeficits, and a mind-bending bailout of mega-corporations. President Obama'sstimulus plan failed every measure it proposed as success and was capped bypassage of a health-care law that ultimately spawned the "Lie of the Year"for 2013. Along the way, we also had a series of national intelligence headsbaldly lie about what sorts of information was being collected (illegally,legally, does it matter?) on law-abiding Americans? We've learned thatpolice act poorly in many circumstances, that local and state governmentsare awful as often as they are outstanding, and that corporations(Volkswagen!) will try to get away with lots of chicanery too.

Of course trust in institutions is mostly at all-time lows! That's whyDonald Trump was able to beat Hillary Clinton in one of the weirdest,most-unpredictable elections ever. Trump is the function of ourdisillusionment and that's one of the reasons why he is ultimately anelectoral dead-end. Never a consistent conservative or Republican, he is thesterile end of 20th-century politics, the last in a long line ofbullies-who-will-tell-us-how-to-live that has no future. Despite some goodderegulatory gestures, he is too mired in 1970s' nostalgia and a world thatceased to exist even before his first divorce. That was enough to squeak byHillary Clinton, who also didn't bother to offer a future-oriented visionfor America, so secure was she in her historic victory.

For the rest of us, though, especially those of us of a libertarian bent, weneed not simply to expect better but to demand better. Regardless of sloweconomic growth throughout this century, regardless of the endless wars inwhich America is mired, and regardless of the ever-growing wall of petty andgrand regulations and restrictions against new ways of doing business andliving life, we are living in a fundamentally Libertarian Moment, one inwhich more and more of us are more able than ever to live where we want,work where we want, marry whom we want, eat what we want, and travel wherewe want. As Matt Welch and I wrote in The Declaration of Independents: HowLibertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America, politics is alagging indicator of where America is headed. Outside of the politicalrealm, our lives are mostly getting better. The challenge—a brutal, onegiven current circumstances—is how to drag politics into the 21st century sothat we finally leave behind two major political parties that are so awfulneither of their candidates could win even 50 percent of the popular vote.

One thing is clear: Cleaving to right/left, conservative/liberal,Republican/Democrat tribes in a world in which more and more people definethemselves as libertarian isn't going to work. Neither will falling forfake-news narratives about Trump's historical badness. We need a newpolitics that is ultimately based on policy, not personalities; policy, notpolitics; and policy, not partisanship. We need to demand more of ourelected representatives and we need to start yesterday.

Nick Gillespie is the editor in chief of Reason.com and Reason TV and theco-author, with Matt Welch, of The Declaration of Independents: HowLibertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America (2011/2012). He isalso a columnist for The Daily Beast.

Post by Michael Ejercitohttp://reason.com/blog/2017/05/17/all-this-impeachment-talk-is-pure-trumpAll This Impeachment Talk Is Pure Trump Derangement SyndromeThat man in the White House is vulgar, disrespectul, maybe even dangerous.So what?

So why do you care about what goes on in American politics? From whatI've been told, you are a Filipino waiting to get shipped back home.You should be more worried about what lies ahead for you rather thangetting concerned about America's troubles.

This is embarrassing. My fraternity from graduating class of 1980 ishaving our re-union right after Thanksgiving this year. We've booked Ithink 194 of us (with wives) on 'Norwegian Cruise Lines" for7days/6nights in the Caribbean. The problem is my wife. She has addedabout 65-70 lbs of unsightly fat on her body and her once cute facelooks like an old catcher's mitt since our college days. I'm embarrassedto show the old gang that this pig was the best I could do for a wife. Ijust know I'll be a laughing stock when this cruise is over. Should i gowith her, leave her home and hire a young sexy escort for the week topose as my second wife, or should I just make some excuse and stay home.Any logical suggestions will be considered.

Post by Michael Ejercitohttp://reason.com/blog/2017/05/17/all-this-impeachment-talk-is-pure-trumpAll This Impeachment Talk Is Pure Trump Derangement SyndromeThat man in the White House is vulgar, disrespectul, maybe even dangerous.So what?

So why do you care about what goes on in American politics? From whatI've been told, you are a Filipino waiting to get shipped back home.You should be more worried about what lies ahead for you rather thangetting concerned about America's troubles.

WHO told you that? Your serbian pimp while he porked you, Loose Sphincter?You are even a bigger LAUGHING STOCK than the serbian assclown! LOL

--Loose Sphincter, the unhappily married nazi homo, whining in public aboutits "PIG": "I'm embarrassed to show the old gang that this pig was the bestI could do for a wife."!MID: <l1ltsa$pf8$***@speranza.aioe.org>

Post by Michael Ejercitohttp://reason.com/blog/2017/05/17/all-this-impeachment-talk-is-pure-trumpAll This Impeachment Talk Is Pure Trump Derangement SyndromeThat man in the White House is vulgar, disrespectul, maybe even dangerous.So what?

So why do you care about what goes on in American politics? From whatI've been told, you are a Filipino waiting to get shipped back home.You should be more worried about what lies ahead for you rather thangetting concerned about America's troubles.

He'll get whacked by one of Duarte Harry's death squads as soon as heslithers off the banana boat in Manila.

Post by Michael Ejercitohttp://reason.com/blog/2017/05/17/all-this-impeachment-talk-is-pure-trumpAll This Impeachment Talk Is Pure Trump Derangement SyndromeThat man in the White House is vulgar, disrespectul, maybe even dangerous.So what?

So why do you care about what goes on in American politics? From whatI've been told, you are a Filipino waiting to get shipped back home.You should be more worried about what lies ahead for you rather thangetting concerned about America's troubles.

He'll get whacked by one of Duarte Harry's death squads as soon as heslithers off the banana boat in Manila.Cheers!RJ (preferred jew aliash)

Post by Michael Ejercitohttp://reason.com/blog/2017/05/17/all-this-impeachment-talk-is-pure-trumpAll This Impeachment Talk Is Pure Trump Derangement SyndromeThat man in the White House is vulgar, disrespectul, maybe even dangerous.So what?

So why do you care about what goes on in American politics? From whatI've been told, you are a Filipino waiting to get shipped back home.You should be more worried about what lies ahead for you rather thangetting concerned about America's troubles.

He'll get whacked by one of Duarte Harry's death squads as soon as heslithers off the banana boat in Manila.Cheers!RJ (preferred jew aliash)

Post by Barry W. SheinSo why do you care about what goes on in American politics? From whatI've been told, you are a Filipino waiting to get shipped back home.You should be more worried about what lies ahead for you rather thangetting concerned about America's troubles.

Post by Barry W. SheinSo why do you care about what goes on in American politics? From whatI've been told, you are a Filipino waiting to get shipped back home.You should be more worried about what lies ahead for you rather thangetting concerned about America's troubles.

If you had rudimentary knowledge of geography, you would know that bananaboats leaving the U.S. would leave from ports in Hawaii, since that is wherethe bananas are grown.Michael

If you had rudimentary knowledge of econimics, you would know that theFlippines are overrun with their own bananas and have absolutely noneed to import expensive bananas from your host country. Banana boatsleave Manila for Long Beach full of bananas and return to Manila fullof deported Flips like you.

Post by Michael EjercitoIf you had rudimentary knowledge of geography, you would know that bananaboats leaving the U.S. would leave from ports in Hawaii, since that is wherethe bananas are grown.Michael

If you had rudimentary knowledge of econimics, you would know that theFlippines are overrun with their own bananas and have absolutely noneed to import expensive bananas from your host country. Banana boatsleave Manila for Long Beach full of bananas and return to Manila fullof deported Flips like you.

If you had rudimentary knowledge of geography, you would know that bananaboats leaving the U.S. would leave from ports in Hawaii, since that is wherethe bananas are grown.Michael

If you had rudimentary knowledge of econimics, you would know that theFlippines are overrun with their own bananas and have absolutely noneed to import expensive bananas from your host country. Banana boatsleave Manila for Long Beach full of bananas and return to Manila fullof deported Flips like you.

If you had rudimentary knowledge of geography, you would know that bananaboats leaving the U.S. would leave from ports in Hawaii, since that is wherethe bananas are grown.Michael

If you had rudimentary knowledge of econimics, you would know that theFlippines are overrun with their own bananas and have absolutely noneed to import expensive bananas from your host country. Banana boatsleave Manila for Long Beach full of bananas and return to Manila fullof deported Flips like you.

Once the bananas are off-loaded, the boat ceases to be a banana boat.Michael

It's still a banana boat because its primary purpose is the export ofFlip banana from the Flippines. To avoid returning home empty, it isfilled with Flip deportees under an arrangement between the UnitedFruit Company and Immigration & Customs Enforcement.

"Tao exhibited extraordinary mathematical abilities from an early age,attending university level mathematics courses at the age of nine. Heand Lenhard Ng are the only two children in the history of the JohnsHopkins' Study of Exceptional Talent program to have achieved a scoreof 700 or greater on the SAT math section while just nine yearsold. Tao scored a 760.[3] In 1986, 1987, and 1988, Tao was theyoungest participant to date in the International MathematicalOlympiad, first competing at the age of ten, winning a bronze, silver,and gold medal respectively."

Further achievements:

- Ph.D at age 21 (Princeton).- full professor at UCLA at age 24.- Won the Fields Medal (highest award in math), at the age of 31.- Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014)- Royal Medal (2014)

Some believe that he [Hitler] is entirely immune from such impulses.Some believe that he is a chronic masturbator. Some believe thathe derives his sexual pleasure [Page 138] through voyeurism. Manybelieve that he is completely impotent. Others, and these are perhapsin the majority, that he is homosexual. It is probably true that he isimpotent but he is certainiy not homosexual in the ordinary sense ofthe term. His perversion has quite a different nature which few haveguessed. He is an extreme masochist who derives sexual pleasure fromhaving a woman squat over him while she uriniates or defecates on hisface. (Strasser, 919; see also 931, 932)*

[*Note: There may be some people who would question the reliability ofany information given by Otto Strasser because of his reputation. Itis perhaps because of his reputation that he came by this informationwhich had been so carefully guarded. He also supplied the interviewerwith a great deal of other information concerning Hitler whichchecked very closely with that of other informants. As far as thisstudy is concerned we have no reason to question his sincerity.]

Although this perversion is not a common one, it is not unknown inclinical work, particularly in its incipient stages. The fourcollaborators on this study, in addition to Dr. De Saussure wholearned of the perversion from other sources, have all had experiencewith cases of this type. All five agree that their information asgiven is probably true in view of their clinical experience and theirknowledge of Hitler's character. In the following section furtherevidence of its validition will be cited. At the present moment it issufficient to recognize the influence that this perversion must haveon the conscious mental life of Hitler.

Some believe that he [Hitler] is entirely immune from such impulses.Some believe that he is a chronic masturbator. Some believe thathe derives his sexual pleasure [Page 138] through voyeurism. Manybelieve that he is completely impotent. Others, and these are perhapsin the majority, that he is homosexual. It is probably true that he isimpotent but he is certainiy not homosexual in the ordinary sense ofthe term. His perversion has quite a different nature which few haveguessed. He is an extreme masochist who derives sexual pleasure fromhaving a woman squat over him while she uriniates or defecates on hisface. (Strasser, 919; see also 931, 932)*

[*Note: There may be some people who would question the reliability ofany information given by Otto Strasser because of his reputation. Itis perhaps because of his reputation that he came by this informationwhich had been so carefully guarded. He also supplied the interviewerwith a great deal of other information concerning Hitler whichchecked very closely with that of other informants. As far as thisstudy is concerned we have no reason to question his sincerity.]

Although this perversion is not a common one, it is not unknown inclinical work, particularly in its incipient stages. The fourcollaborators on this study, in addition to Dr. De Saussure wholearned of the perversion from other sources, have all had experiencewith cases of this type. All five agree that their information asgiven is probably true in view of their clinical experience and theirknowledge of Hitler's character. In the following section furtherevidence of its validition will be cited. At the present moment it issufficient to recognize the influence that this perversion must haveon the conscious mental life of Hitler.

Some believe that he [Hitler] is entirely immune from such impulses.Some believe that he is a chronic masturbator. Some believe thathe derives his sexual pleasure [Page 138] through voyeurism. Manybelieve that he is completely impotent. Others, and these are perhapsin the majority, that he is homosexual. It is probably true that he isimpotent but he is certainiy not homosexual in the ordinary sense ofthe term. His perversion has quite a different nature which few haveguessed. He is an extreme masochist who derives sexual pleasure fromhaving a woman squat over him while she uriniates or defecates on hisface. (Strasser, 919; see also 931, 932)*

[*Note: There may be some people who would question the reliability ofany information given by Otto Strasser because of his reputation. Itis perhaps because of his reputation that he came by this informationwhich had been so carefully guarded. He also supplied the interviewerwith a great deal of other information concerning Hitler whichchecked very closely with that of other informants. As far as thisstudy is concerned we have no reason to question his sincerity.]

Although this perversion is not a common one, it is not unknown inclinical work, particularly in its incipient stages. The fourcollaborators on this study, in addition to Dr. De Saussure wholearned of the perversion from other sources, have all had experiencewith cases of this type. All five agree that their information asgiven is probably true in view of their clinical experience and theirknowledge of Hitler's character. In the following section furtherevidence of its validition will be cited. At the present moment it issufficient to recognize the influence that this perversion must haveon the conscious mental life of Hitler.

Post by Michael Ejercitohttp://reason.com/blog/2017/05/17/all-this-impeachment-talk-is-pure-trumpAll This Impeachment Talk Is Pure Trump Derangement SyndromeThat man in the White House is vulgar, disrespectul, maybe even dangerous.So what?

You don't need to worry about that now, dreckgook, and you'll haveeven LESS need to worry when you're back in Manila.

Post by Michael Ejercitohttp://reason.com/blog/2017/05/17/all-this-impeachment-talk-is-pure-trumpAll This Impeachment Talk Is Pure Trump Derangement SyndromeThat man in the White House is vulgar, disrespectul, maybe even dangerous.So what?

You don't need to worry about that now, dreckgook, and you'll haveeven LESS need to worry when you're back in Manila.Cheers!RJ (preferred jew aliash)

Post by Michael Ejercitohttp://reason.com/blog/2017/05/17/all-this-impeachment-talk-is-pure-trumpAll This Impeachment Talk Is Pure Trump Derangement SyndromeThat man in the White House is vulgar, disrespectul, maybe even dangerous.So what?

You don't need to worry about that now, dreckgook, and you'll haveeven LESS need to worry when you're back in Manila.Cheers!RJ (preferred jew aliash)

So, true preferred jew aliash Ron!BZS

About death squads, he should worry jew pedophile Baruch 'Barry'Shein!

"BZS"??? Is that the sound you make when you squeeze your own jizz throughyour teeth, you housebound cocksucker?

--"sully" to deviated Goran Razovic:"I...am having fun with you, a perverted sex-obsessed eunuch, a bigotedinsect of intellect with an absolute vacuum of thought, a hateful littlewaitress in a KKK cafe serving excrement sundaes."MID: <25aa6002-7316-4d5d-a72f-***@v8g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>

"Aryan Nations" leader, convicted of theft, is also a pedophile---------------------------------------------------------------This dirty cockroach is named August Byron Kreis III. He was theleader of the "Aryan Nations". Just look at this foul beast:

"Aryan Nations" leader, convicted of theft, is also a pedophile---------------------------------------------------------------This dirty cockroach is named August Byron Kreis III. He was theleader of the "Aryan Nations". Just look at this foul beast:

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1633343/thumbs/o-AUGUST-KREIS-facebook.jpg

In June 2011, Kreis was arrested in Obion County, Tennessee onfelony charges for filing fraudulent statements in an effort toobtain veterans benefits.

In August 2011, he pled guilty to lying to Veterans Administrationofficials in order to get pension money which he was not entitled toreceive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Kreis_III).

And, of course, he's also a pervert:

http://tinyurl.com/q2qm743

"COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP). Richland County deputies have charged anavowed white supremacist with second-degree criminal sexual conductagainst a female relative under the age of 12.

Sheriff Leon Lott said 59-year-old August Byron Kreis III sexuallyassaulted the girl and showed her pornography."